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SWOT Assessment: Microsoft Azure Active Directory

Introduction

Microsoft’s Identity as a Service (IDaaS) facilities are delivered using the company’s range of Azure Active Directory products.

Highlights

IDaaS coverage for business-to-employee (B2E) and business-to-business (B2B) environments is maintained for all organizations using Azure Active Directory Premium, Basic, and Free editions. There is also a version of Azure Active Directly specifically for business-to-consumer (B2C) environments.

Features and Benefits

Understand that Microsoft clients benefit from pure cloud as well as a hybrid mix of cloud and on-premise IDaaS solutions.

Understand that Microsoft Azure AD supports risk-based, multi-factor authentication. This also ties in with its support for strong access control facilities.

Key questions answered

How does Microsoft provide integration with on-premise directories and connectors to synchronize with their cloud-based equivalents?

How does Microsoft Azure Active Directory technology provide portal-based access to services and applications for all user types?

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